New York High School “Palestine Education Project” Makes An Anti-American Video

Bushwick Community High is a school for students that have struggled to finish off a high school degree. On its website, it claims to accept “17-21-year-olds who have not met with success in high school and wish to continue with education and earn a diploma.”

Its mission says it is for “students to become empowered for positive social transformation and liberation; to educate and inspire our students to positively transform themselves, their local communities and their world at large.”

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According to the PEP, “the curriculum is designed to examine both global and local systems of oppression; to identify the common struggles people of color share against racism, militarism, and displacement; to empower students to discover their own voices of resistance; and to break down the walls that separate us.”

They believe that if they can increase their awareness of how their struggles affect others, they can begin to challenge the oppression they are confronted with.

In the video below, students and “facilitators” discuss the problems many Brooklyn blacks face as well as a problem referred to as the “prison industrial complex.”

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In the video, a student says that “the prisons were created for profit, are an extension of slavery, and that the architects are very intentional about seeing to it that 18-35-year-old men, the strongest… who could actually lead a revolt and change the world, are either working for them, or in cages.”

No student mentions what lead to these men being placed in prison, but only that every one “was wrongly accused.”

One student reiterated that “they [are] not taking the people that’s doing crimes, real crimes; they taking people that’s not doing crimes, so just locking up our brothers and sisters for no reason so they can make profit.”

The course also places a large portion of its curriculum on the issues surrounding Arabs and Palestinians.

In an activity that looks to counter the media’s portrayal of Arabs, they ask students to get up and stand on a large map of Palestine that has been drawn on the floor with tape. Some students are Arabs, and others Jewish settlers. The students then, “begin to move physically through the history of colonization and displacement in Palestine.”

The goal they claim, is to get students to realize the oppression the Palestinians faced while being pushed out of their land.

What isn’t mentioned, however, is the numerous times the Israelis gave back land to the Palestinians – after the Israelis were raided by Palestinians – in exchange for peace.